Daumier quotes

I dread this like the dentist, rather more so: To me Art's subject is the human clay, And landscape but a background to a torso; All Ce¤ z anne's apples I would give away For one small Goya or a Daumier.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'Letter to Byron', pt.3, stanza 20, collected in Poems, Essays, Dramatic Writings1927^1939 (1977).

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